Top Government advisor: “the public is anti-everything”

A TOP energy adviser has blasted the British public for holding back urgent new green developments in the UK.

Professor David McKay – who says that the British public are “anti-everything” – argues that the large-scale construction of huge renewable power plants is being held back by lack of public support.

McKay – who is to become chief scientific advisor to the Department of Energy next month – warned that “we have a serious building programme on our hands”.

He said: “We have got a big problem on our hands – that the public is anti-everything.

“There is a strong anti-wind movement, a strong anti-nuclear movement, they are against a barrage in the Severn estuary, they are against waste incinerators and they are not that keen on electric cars and insulating their houses.“We have got to stop saying no to these things.”